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The article's timing is more than a bit off. Work has been ongoing for months on the 12th St. Station near downtown Plano. Structures and platforms can clearly be seen between Ave. K and Municipal St. The crossings on Ave. K and Municipal were replaced in recent weeks. There is supposedly a closure ...

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Candy's Dirt is reporting that another Park Cities home has been torn down. The article refers to it as "landmarked", but I just checked the state Historical Commission's Atlas site and they have no state-level historical marker or National Register marker for it, so it may have been local...

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Dallas’ Medical District Experiencing a Healthy Dose of Growth Several new projects are in the works around the Medical District: * A new pediatric wing at Children's Medical Center, including labor/delivery (2024-2028 construction timeframe) * A state psychiatric hospital with 296 beds, with servi...

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Coming in 2025: Luxury resort to partner with TaylorMade for 'boutique' golf experience in Frisco The Bays Golf Experience and Suites will be located adjacent to the new PGA complex. It will include golf practice areas, a bar with a 70-foot TV, and a TaylorMade shop where guests can get their own g...

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I have a unit at the self storage facility behind The Galatyn. Any bets on how long it will be before I have to move everything out because the facility has been sold to a developer wanting to build a shiny new residential tower?? lol Since you're storing there, I would be in regular contact with t...

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DART celebrates 40th anniversary Hard to believe it has been 4 decades since area voters approved what became DART. Dallas was previously served by DTS (Dallas Transit System). A couple of still pictures are shown during the interview, one is an aerial of early work being done at Mockingbird Statio...

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DART celebrates 40th anniversary Hard to believe it has been 4 decades since area voters approved what became DART. Dallas was previously served by DTS (Dallas Transit System). A couple of still pictures are shown during the interview, one is an aerial of early work being done at Mockingbird Statio...

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Well, that's good that we're starting to get them.
Too bad there aren't sections of dedicated rail ready for them yet.

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Dallas' only major film & TV studio to get multimillion-dollar renovation South Side Studios was bought out recently and will get a major renovation that will include replacement/additions of soundstages and new virtual production studios. All the work should be complete by May of next year. ht...

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Interesting turn for North Texas Public Broadcasting. They have acquired the Denton Record-Chronicle , which will now become a non-profit. Both sides are upbeat, and mentioned how each will share journalists and their contributions with the other. I don't think I've heard of a public TV or radio sta...

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Trinity Metro chooses design team for new Near Southside station in Fort Worth Construction is due to start next year on a 2.1 mile extension of the TexRail to a new station in the Medical District. The Near Southside station will include parking for 100 vehicles. https://fortworth.culturemap.com/n...

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The JW Marriott hotel website:

https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/d ... /overview/

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There was a long line of trucks waiting along the southbound Central service road in the last couple of days here. I was on the other side, so I couldn't tell if it was incoming materials, or trucks waiting to load up with dirt being scooped up to make room for the underground parking.

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The Tanger outlet center in north Fort Worth is getting 2 new stores (Under Armour, Simply Southern) and a Cracker Barrel restaurant. The stores will occupy spaces in the center's structure, while the restaurant will locate separately in the parking lot. The report didn't mention any timelines for c...

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"I work at The Mix." "I live at The Mix."
Cake mix? Chex mix?

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Two local homebuilders are collaborating on a housing project in the Jeffries-Meyers section of South Dallas. They approached the city about putting up duplexes on the previously run-down/vacant blocks. It will definitely look better there (just off Malcolm X and south of DART's main light rail yard...

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Ch.5 coverage of today's McKinney opening

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/h-e-b ... y/3299178/

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The Super Kings played their home opener last Thursday. They beat the L.A. team and the game was a sell-out.

https://www.fwweekly.com/2023/07/14/spo ... -in-texas/

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This report about misc. developments in Allen includes this about the upcoming Allen H-E-B store: it will be the first DFW-area H-E-B to have an H-E-B Wellness Primary Care clinic. Services will include primary care, physical therapy, health/nutrition coaching, clinical pharmacists, specialty referr...

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June, 2023 2 units sold. 96 sold in 67 months (1.433 per month) 62 remaining. Sell-out projection (at that pace of sales): 9 years, 3 months. This is their fourth and fiths sales this year (0.833 sales per month). At this rate their sellout period will extend to 11 years,10 months. Top Wow, they ac...

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United States Metro population forecast for the year 2100. Is this for real? https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/visualizing-us-cities-2100/ So many things could happen between now and 2100. Miami and Houston are too prone to hurricanes and rising seas. Memphis and the west coast cities are overdue for...

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The new McKinney H-E-B is set to open July 19. It will be at Custer/Eldorado.

https://starlocalmedia.com/mckinneycour ... 5b2e6.html

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Ground was broken this week for a Tom Thumb store in Forney. The store is projected to open in September of next year.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tom-t ... s/3287931/

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More coverage of the Tom Thumb groundbreaking

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tom-t ... s/3287931/

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Tom Thumb to break ground on Waxahachie store June 30

https://www.waxahachietx.com/2023/06/23 ... e-june-30/

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Juanita Craft’s Little White House Is Now a Museum Not far from the crossing of Malcolm X Blvd./Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., the place Juanita Craft called home has been renovated and fixed up as a museum to remember her life and legacy as a force for integration of the State Fair, an early City C...

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Sean Bass, who has spent almost as much time working for The Ticket as Norm has, puts a few words together on what it's been like to work with--and for--Norm.

https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2023/0 ... etirement/

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tamtagon wrote:Is there still a plan for passenger rail from Terrell-forney to downtown?

I've heard nothing new about that.

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The DBJ interviewed Kaufman's head of economic development. He said that several retail and restaurant chains are looking at locating in Kaufman, but didn't specify which ones. One name he did drop, was a Hampton Inn hotel that would break ground later this summer. This would mark only the second br...

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tamtagon wrote:Is this from Craig Hall?

The article said it was a Swiss group and didn't mention Hall.

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H-E-B has opened a new e-commerce fulfillment center next to its Plano store location at Preston/Spring Creek. It will serve not only Plano, but Allen, Frisco, and McKinney also. This is similar to what Target has been doing in recent years, handling online orders through their stores (and using sto...

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I wonder where they put the pool.

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Grand Prairie puts itself on the map with another big attraction

Another push to get Grand Prairie Gateway (multi-use development at I-30/Belt Line) going.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/grand ... n/3273842/

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Ch.8 talks to the designer of the Juneteenth Museum, about the site and what will be a part of the museum

https://youtu.be/BxpN9e-q-2c

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Norm Hitzges, a longtime fixture in Dallas media, including 23 years at The Ticket, has decided to call it a day. His regular appearances with a microphone and something to say about sports will end on Friday (June 23). Supposedly he will make cameos during drafts, as well as his yearly Normathon fu...

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The City Council has approved the HMart plan. It will be on the south side of Royal between Harry Hines and Reeder.

https://youtu.be/9pFjSyVYqoA

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I could see some of it from Royal in recent days, as well as the top of it from 75-Central.

Now for the fun part--getting it over to the bridge pillars for installation. I haven't seen any word on when it's going to be installed, but something like this will surely be covered in the media.

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Dallas City Council votes to acquire 300-acre park in southern Dallas

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... rness.html

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The Ambition of the Upcoming National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth

The opening of the upcoming museum is now set for June 19, 2025.

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/ ... ort-worth/

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Another H-E-B brand is coming to the area. "Joe V's Smart Shop", a brand that doesn't quite connotate 'grocery store' IMO, has been an H-E-B brand presence prior to now in Houston. According to several reports, the ex-Albertsons at US 67/Wheatland that was acquired by H-E-B a while back, i...

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'Jaw dropping'| Golf fans and players share excitement over PGA Frisco's one-of-a-kind experience https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/golf/frisco-pga-headquarters-golf-experience/287-ec98fa0d-75f4-480f-9bc7-64c329b57d6c https://starlocalmedia.com/friscoenterprise/the-first-major-championship-at-pga...

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Dr. Samuell's name can be found in many parts of Dallas. One reason? The gift he left at his passing decades ago, which makes up over 1700 acres of land and parks. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2023/may/dr-william-samuell-father-of-dallas-parks/ https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/...

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Why Rodd Newhouse is betting big on the success of Dallas’ major league rugby team Rodd Newhouse is the COO of the Jackals, who currently play home games at Arlington's Choctaw Stadium. Newhouse is the son of Robert Newhouse, a veteran player for the Dallas Cowboys. https://www.bizjournals.com/dall...

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New Effort to Get Running Water in Former Dallas Freeman's Town of Sand Branch

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/new-e ... h/3246740/

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Dallas' vacant land could house up to 100,000 new apartments, study asserts

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... study.html

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Billingsley has acquired both the SE and SW corners of US 75/TX 121 for a new 500-acre development. Residential (~6000 multi-family units), retail (200,000+ sq. ft.), and office (10 million+ sq. ft.) are planned. The SW corner, first developed as Belz Factory Outlet mall, has been the site of other ...

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And with the building name change, there is also yet *another* rotunda re-use. Now it will be a restaurant.

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Collin County's population is on its way to approaching Dallas' and other key takeaways from the 2023 Texas Demographic Conference

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... rence.html

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If you are going to be gone for more than one day does anyone want their car in an open lot exposed to weather and crime for an extended period of time. What does that have to do with TexRail? I think this was due to my earlier post. But uhhhh I do exactly that in Chicago hahahah Maybe Cb is lookin...

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David Craig (as in McKinney's Craig Ranch development) has announced plans for a 3000+ acre mixed-use development on Lake Texoma. 20 years in the making, it will have single- and multi-family residential, a marina with as many as 400-600 boat slips, a hotel, retail, restaurants, and interest from an...

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